The Big Deal: After Scrapping IPO, MacDermid Sells for $1.8 Billion

MacDermid Inc.’s $1.8 billion sale marks the end of a more than two year-long exit process for the chemical company’s buyout sponsors Weston Presidio and Court Square Capital Partners.

The two sponsors, which took MacDermid private in April 2007 alongside chief executive Daniel H. Leever in a deal valued at more than $1.3 billion, filed in July 2011 to take the company public in an initial public offering of up to $200 million.

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